Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 9.360
Hearing Brings the Riches of Love
“Whoever hears of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage to various holy places attains the riches of very deep ecstatic love.”
What the purport teaches
- Whoever hears of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage attains the riches of very deep ecstatic love.
- The purport rejects the idea that the Lord’s forms are imaginary or that Deity worship is merely the conditioned soul’s illusion. Neither Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam nor Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepts worship of imagined forms for sense gratification as spiritually significant.
- Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu confirms that the Supreme Lord is simultaneously one with and different from His creation. This philosophy, acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, teaches unity in diversity.
Try this today
Read aloud a passage about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage and listen attentively.
Ask yourself
How does the teaching that the Lord’s forms are not imaginary shape your approach to hearing about Him?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.